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So after the domain has been bought, the company can obviously see who bought it and find out your true identity. Is this a problem? (an inevitable one).

• escaped_hn 12y ago
  I would guess the main reason for hiding your identity would be so the sellers don't overcharge. After its sold, it doesn't matter.
  • jonah 12y ago
    Correct. Though it't often easy enough to figure it out if it's related to an existing company.
• pan69 12y ago
  You want to avoid price inflation before the deal has been completed.
• puranjay 12y ago
  You'd be surprised how prevalent fake identities are in this business. Years ago, I owned a lot of domains. Some very good ones, in fact. I had someone approach me to buy the domain, claiming they were a tiny 2-person startup. Some Googling and talking to friends who owned domain names revealed that they were actually representing Microsoft. It's very common for even multi-billion dollar corporations to pretend to be broke students/entrepreneurs/non-profits to get cheap prices on domain names.